>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew R MacIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Matthew> How can I get automake setup the Makefile in the test/
Matthew> directory to link with the objects in the src/ directory?
You'd think that this would work:
AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = subdir-objects
check_PROGRAMS = testprog
testprog_SOURCES = test.c ../src/back.c ../src/end.c
Unfortunately, it doesn't :-(. It's a bit hard to recall why I
disallowed this. It was either
(a) a pedantic decision based on the idea that `../src' might not be
in the project (which would be losing because we can actually check
that), or
(b) based on the idea that determining the correct dependency file for
`../src/back.c' would be "too hard". You see, we really want to limit
the amount of processing we do at compilation time. We're already
invoking a shell script which runs sed and stuff (yuck), but my
long-term goal here is that if the user is using gcc 3 we should
simply be able to invoke it without running depcomp.
I imagine it was (b) because of the comment in
&handle_single_transform_list.
A long time ago I made the decision to put dependency files into a
subdir instead of having them clutter up the build directory (and
corresponding usurp some random suffix, like `.d', which might
otherwise be useful). Now I wonder if that was such a hot idea. If
we put the dependency files directly into the objdir things might
become a lot simpler. Comments?
Tom
